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Rising to the Light: A Portrait of Bruno Bettelheim
Rising to the Light tells the story of Bruno Bettelheim, who for many years was the Director of the Orthogenic School, a residential treatment center for disturbed children, operated by the University of Chicago. Robert Maynard Hutchins chose Bettelheim to direct the Orthogenic School, impressed by Bettelheim's profound interest in treating severely disturbed children, though Bettelheim had no formal credentials for the job. Instead, Bettelheim drew upon...